Abstract: A method may include forming a mask layer on top of a first dielectric layer formed on a first source/drain and a second source/drain, and creating an opening in the mask layer and the first dielectric layer that exposes portions of the first source/drain and the second source/drain. The method may include filling the opening with a metal layer that covers the exposed portions of the first source/drain and the second source/drain, and forming a gap in the metal layer to create a first metal contact and a second metal contact. The first metal contact may electrically couple to the first source/drain and the second metal contact may electrically couple to the second source/drain. The gap may separate the first metal contact from the second metal contact by less than nineteen nanometers.

Abstract: A charging pile is provided, comprising a shell, providing with an input control area, a power holding area and a power output area. The power output area defines a first channel, an end of the first channel is communicated with external environment. The input control area defines a second channel, heat generated by the power output module and the input control module is transmitted to the second channel. The power holding area defines a third channel, the second channel is communicated with the first channel and the third channel, the third channel is located on a side of the power module, cold air flows into the second channel through the first channel, brings out part of heat of the power output module and the input control module, and then flows out of the third channel.

Abstract: A method includes forming a wafer, and etching a first dielectric layer of the wafer to form a first trench between two dies of the wafer. A first portion of a second dielectric layer of the wafer is directly underlying the first trench. A laser grooving process is then performed to remove the first portion of the second dielectric layer of the wafer and to form a second trench, which is underlying and joined to the first trench. The second dielectric layer includes a corner region where the first trench is joined to the second trench. Portions of a top surface of the corner region closer to a center middle line of the second trench are increasing lower than respective portions of the top surface of the corner region farther away from the center middle line.

Abstract: A system for automatically generating responses to user queries includes one or more processors, operable when executing instructions to: receive a query from a user, determine a first set of similarity scores between the query and a plurality of stored queries stored in a data store, and determine whether a first similarity score of the first set of similarity scores meets a first threshold. In accordance with a determination that the first similarity score meets the first threshold, the processors are further operable to obtain a set of case information for the current case; retrieve case information for at least one precedent case; determine a second set of similarity scores between the current case and the at least one precedent case; determine whether a second similarity score of the second set of similarity scores meets a second threshold; and generate a response to the query.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating semantic scene graphs for digital images using an external knowledgebase for feature refinement. For example, the disclosed system can determine object proposals and subgraph proposals for a digital image to indicate candidate relationships between objects in the digital image. The disclosed system can then extract relationships from an external knowledgebase for refining features of the object proposals and the subgraph proposals. Additionally, the disclosed system can generate a semantic scene graph for the digital image based on the refined features of the object/subgraph proposals. Furthermore, the disclosed system can update/train a semantic scene graph generation network based on the generated semantic scene graph. The disclosed system can also reconstruct the image using object labels based on the refined features to further update/train the semantic scene graph generation network.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a device may include a first structure comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first structure may include a first substrate and a first through substrate via (TSV) exposed from the second surface of the first substrate. The first TSV may have a first width. The device may also include a second TSV exposed from the second surface of the first structure, where the second TSV has a second width smaller than the first width. The device may further include a guard ring surrounding each of the first and second TSVs. Additionally, the device may include a second structure bonded to the first surface of the first structure, where the first surface has first bond pads.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods and systems for identifying a related data values in a plurality of datasets. The method can include extracting data from the plurality of datasets, identifying potential linking categories, and determining a validity of the potential linking categories. One or more linking categories can be selected from the potential linking categories based on the validity, and related data values can be identified between the plurality of datasets based on the selected linking categories. Also provided herein are methods and systems for classifying data values as reconciled or non-reconciled. The method can include identifying a plurality of related data values in a plurality of datasets. For each of the plurality of related data values, a similarity score and confidence score can be determined, and the plurality of related data values can be classified as reconciled or non-reconciled based on the similarity score and/or the confidence score.

Abstract: Integrated circuit (IC) devices and systems with embedded utility patches, and methods of forming the same, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a microelectronic assembly includes a first substrate with a cavity, and one or more second substrates embedded in the cavity. The first substrate is oriented on a first plane, and the one or more second substrates are oriented on one or more second planes that are substantially orthogonal to the first plane.

Abstract: Various techniques for alleviating the negative effects of crack formation and propagation in glass, and related devices and methods, are disclosed. In one aspect, a microelectronic assembly includes a glass core having a structure of a crack-healing material on its edge, where the crack-healing material includes carbon, e.g., as a part of an organic monomer, oligomer, or a polymer, or as a part of a carbide of an inorganic material such as boron, titanium, or silicon. In another aspect, a microelectronic assembly includes a glass core in which particles that include an inorganic crack-healing material are dispersed, where the material includes carbon or boron, and a volume occupied by the particles is between about 5% and about 55% of the volume of the glass core. Formation of a crack in the glass core may activate the crack-healing material, causing it to at least partially fill the crack.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automated document processing for use in AI-augmented auditing platforms are provided. A system for determining the composition of document bundles extracts substantive content information and metadata information from a document bundle and generates, based on the extracted information regarding a composition of the document bundle. A system for validating signatures in documents extracts data representing a spatial location for respective signatures and generates a confidence level for respective signatures, and determines, based on location and confidence level, whether signature criteria are met. A system for extracting information from documents applies a set of data conversion processing steps to a plurality received documents to generate structured data, and then applies a set of knowledge-based modeling processing steps to the structured data to generating output data extracted from the plurality of electronic documents.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel and improved IL-15 fusion proteins for use in the treatment of cancer and other disorders. In various embodiments, the fusion proteins of the invention have two functional domains: an IL-15/IL-15R?Sushi domain (also referred to herein as an “IL-15/IL-15R?Sushi complex”) and an Fc domain, each of which can take different forms, and configured such that the IL-15 is fused to the C-terminal of the Fc domain and co-expressed and non-covalently complexed with IL-15R?Sushi. Importantly, the fusions proteins of the present invention address several of the limitations observed with the IL-15 therapeutics evaluated to date; specifically, the fusion proteins demonstrate extended the half-life of IL-15 in vivo, and demonstrate superior preclinical activity compared to rIL-15 or related cytokine therapeutics.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cytokine-based bioactivatable drug construct (“VitoKine”) platform that aims to reduce systemic mechanism-based toxicities and lead to broader therapeutic utility for proteins and cytokines such as IL-15 and IL-2 for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, viral infection, transplantation and various other disorders. The novel VitoKine constructs of the present invention comprise: 1) a tissue or disease site targeting moiety D1 domain (“D1”), 2) a bioactivatable moiety D2 domain (“D2”), and a concealing moiety D3 domain (“D3”). Importantly, because the “active moiety” of the VitoKine construct will remain inert until activated locally by proteases that are upregulated in diseased tissues, this will limit binding of the active moiety to the receptors or to the targets in the peripheral or on the cell-surface of non-diseased cells and tissue to prevent over-activation of the pathway and reduce undesirable “on-target” “off tissue” toxicities.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for inhibiting fibrosis in an organ, comprising an angiotensin II receptor antagonist as an active ingredient, wherein the composition is used so that the angiotensin II receptor antagonist is administered at a daily dose that is 0.2 times or less the daily dose of the angiotensin II receptor antagonist used as an antihypertensive.

Abstract: An exemplary system for constructing data structures that can perform inferential reasoning to answer input queries may receive input data, extract and cluster entities in the input data into topic clusters, and for a first topic cluster construct a data structure comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein nodes of the data structure respectively represent a topic entity extracted from the input data and grouped into the first topic cluster, and wherein a first node of the data structure is associated with a second node of the data structure based on the first node and the second node respectively representing a first topic entity and a second topic entity associated in the input data with a common one of the one or more identified linguistic modalities. An exemplary system comprising the data structure may receive an input query and generate a response to the input query using the data structure.

Abstract: A method includes forming a first device die comprising forming an integrated circuit on a semiconductor substrate; and forming an interconnect structure on the semiconductor substrate. The interconnect structure has a plurality of metal layers. The method further includes bonding a second device die to the first device die, and forming gap-fill regions surrounding the second device die. In a first formation process, a first TSV is formed to penetrate through the semiconductor substrate, wherein the first TSV has a first width. In a second formation process, a second TSV is formed to penetrate through the semiconductor substrate. The second TSV has a second width different from the first width.

Abstract: A mobile charging robot and an automatic charging system. The mobile charging robots include a battery assembly, a communication control assembly, a mobile body, and a wireless charging assembly. The battery assembly includes a plurality of energy storage elements for providing electrical energy. The plurality of energy storage elements is electrically connected to the communication control assembly. The mobile body includes a carrying platform. The battery assembly and the communication control assembly are mounted on the carrying platform. The mobile body is configured to carry the battery assembly to a specified location according to a command signal from the communication control assembly. One end of the wireless charging assembly is connected to the mobile body and is electrically connected to the battery assembly and the communication control assembly, the other end of the wireless charging assembly extends outwardly from one side of the mobile body for docking a to-be-charged device.

Abstract: A computing device obtains at least a first threshold and a second threshold by using an algorithm of an independent processing unit, where the first threshold and the second threshold are stored in the independent processing unit; determines, based on the first threshold, that consecutive correctable errors CEs occur; counts a quantity of consecutive CEs; and then stops reporting of a CE interruption based on the quantity of consecutive CEs and the second threshold, where the CE interruption is used to advertise occurrence of the CE.